Pramoedya Ananta Toer

About the Author

Pramoedya Ananta Toer is the author of more than thirty books, including The Fugitive, The Mute’s Soliloquy, and The Girl from the Coast, and is published in more than thirty countries. He has been called “Indonesia’s Albert Camus” (San Francisco Chronicle). The Los Angeles Times compared him to James Baldwin and Dashiell Hammett. And he is listed in the updated edition of the classic Lifetime Reading Plan among the likes of Bertolt Brecht, Graham Greene, and John Steinbeck as one of 100 authors everyone should read. He has been profiled in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other major publications around the world. He is the recipient of numerous international literary awards (such as France’s Chevalier award and the highest award in Asian letters, the Magsaysay award) and freedom-of-speech awards (such as the PEN Freedom-to-Write award and the Hellman-Hammett award). He lives outside Jakarta.